alanmin4304

What they try to get is a small quantity of free available chlorine at the testing point so they have to add enough to take up all the chlorine demand and then have a small quantity of free available chlorine left.

I haven't seen results expressed that way so am a bit lost. The last one is tubidity and is a measure of the light penetration of the water.

They are not called fighting fish for nothing. Even keeping males and females together can be risky unless you are trying to breed them.

I do not think that flouride would be any more toxic to fish than chloride (as in common salt) and I am not sure if it is removed by Sodium thiosulphate (the active ingredient in most additives used to neutralize chlorinated water).

When you add chlorine to water you get hypochlorous acid which reacts with the amines (in all proteins) and forms monochloramine. When you add more chlorine you get dichloramine and even more you get trichloramine. All these (and other reactions) form part of the "chlorine demand" in the water. You cannot get free available chlorine until this "chlorine demand" is satisfied. Therefore when the reaction is pushed towards trichloramine there will be virtually no monochloramine present. In the US they treat the water with monochloramie (made by reacting chlorine with ammonia) because chlorine will react with other impurities in the water and form some compounds that are not so nice (such as acetone) where as monochloramine will not. Monochloramine is not as effective in treating water as chlorine as is used in NZ but is still a strong oxidising agent. When people complain that the chlorine in a swimming pool is too strong and it is burning their eyes the problem usually is that the free available chlorine has been used up by contaminants in the water (such as urea) and this has pushed the chloramines back towards the monochloramine and this is what is burning their eyes. The problem is fixed by adding more chlorine. When you allow water to stand or aerate it to get rid of the chlorine the chloramines all move back to monochloramine and this will react with your fish the same as an under chlorinated swimming pool will with your eyes. Chlorine and all chloramines can be converted to more harmless chemicals with the addition of sodium thiosulphate. Flourine is not added to drinking water, flouride is sometimes. Drinking water will contain various impurites that add to the chlorine demand and will form chloramines

It might be a good time to contact Billy Connely because the insurance Companies will say they don't need to pay out because it is an act of god so you may need Billy to sue god again.

If your water is chlorinated and you let it sit the chlorine will disperse but it will leave a lot of monocloramine which is used in the US to treat water supplies and is almost as deadly as chlorine. I have posted info on this a number of times and it will be available if you do a search.

Take that boy's name. Once again he is on to it. It doesn't realy matter if it makes sense or not---that is the path that has to be travelled and the experts are not going to believe you or me, so we would have to pay megabucks to an "expert" to present the case. The ones in the country were brought in and released under the old system. Blue toungues were also but have been banned by Auckland Regional Council. Good luck out there, but you probably have a better chance of winning lotto. At least that is one in 3.8 million if I remember correctly.

Without wishing to sound pedantic, thay are called tree frogs for a reason. Green and golds need to be warmer than the others and they all will hibernate if it is cold enough. Mine are presently hibernating at 17 degrees C. They generally head for a high spot to hibernate rather than in the water.

I would love to see leopards imported but as part of the submission you need to prove that they will not be a threat to any living thing in NZ and that is the main challenge, let alone the cost of quarantine if they were approved---which I very much doubt. We have some very rare native geckos which those with the say would no doubt prefer to protect. Much as I would love to have some, count me out.

If you put your hoses to the outside tap and blow the water against the normal flow it gets rid of most of the gunk.

Darn-no barn

It means that the animal can only be kept in containment (in a zoo or similar facility) and cannot be sold or available to the general public.

I know what is being said but to get 50 (or so ) people to front up with the money and see it through when there is absolutely no guarantee of success is the challenge. I have done a similar thing in relation to other organisms and it has a habit of turning to custard.

Applying is easy but paying for the research and paper work is the challenge. If it was that easy it would have already been done.

I would think you would have problems growing most plants other than ones that float or send leaves to the surface

They always charged for inspections but tests to ID or for supposed diseases is what is making it tough. That is on top of the added costs from new physical requirements because of different people supervising and different interpretations of the guidelines.

Ludwigia repens will go a bit red with good light but the red varieties (I think there are three around) need pretty intense light.

I was tempted to say that plastic ones would be fine---but I wont. How big is the tank and mainly how high is the water level?

I was simply stating a fact rather than making a judgement. All of these things in fish keeping have their place and what is junk to one person is a very useful tool to another.

On the plantgeek site they often say that algae problems are caused by an imbalance of nitrate to phoshate and often suggest adding nitrate, but they also encourage CO2 and strong light.

I don't know about 6500k lighting as I haven't used it for a while. Many swear by them and they are cheap. I use cool white and growlux type tubes. At the moment I have thrown in a blue one to see what happens (plants are emersed and are now throwing runners).

I have never tested a fish tank in over 30 years.

The importers are trying to remain in the business of making money by importing fish. If they can make money from the fish you want and they can obtain them they will import them. If they are fish with a limited market or they are fish that die every time they import them chances are they will not want to know. Not complicated realy.

Some were sold, some were destroyed and I understand there is a court case pending over them. I also understand some were destroyed down here a couple of weeks ago.